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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:F/A-18C-23-MC (Lot 10) Hornet
    Last Military Serial:163439 USN
    Construction Number:641/C011
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18C-23-MC (Lot 10) sn 1634...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18C-23-MC (Lot 10) by McDonnell Douglas.

    1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163439.

    From 1987 to After 1991

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 86 (VFA-86), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AB-402

    From Circa August 1990 to Circa March 1991

    Ca.8/90 to Ca. 3/91: Deployed aboard USS America for combat operations in support of Operation Desert Storm.

    By July 1996

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 83 (VFA-83), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AA-301

    By January 1999

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 115 (VFA-115), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NK-200, CAG

    February 2003

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 86 (VFA-86), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: 403

    2004

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AD-330

    By 2016

    Transferred to Navy Flight Demonstration Team (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: Blue Angels 1

    By August 2016

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels 3

    19 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAWS China Lake Air Show

    By May 2018

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels 1

    October 2018

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels 4

    By April 2019

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels 1

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA. Shooting into the sun and through lots of smoke left by Aeroshell team.

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA.

    29 June 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA.

    By November 2019

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels 2

    8 December 2020

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 10 October 2021

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 1

    10 October 2021


    Photographer: Robert C Bennett
    Notes: 164349 on display at Udvar Hazy.
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    F-18 Fandom
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